1. The Peopling of the World Prehistory – 2500 B.C.
Chapter 1

2. What do you see in this picture?

3. Anthropologist vs. Archeologist Study of other cultures.
Study of historic or prehistoric peoples
and their cultures by analysis of their
artifacts.

4. Stone Age Split into two parts
1) Paleolithic Age – 2.5 million to 8000 B.C.
2) Neolithic Age – 8000 B.C. – 3000 B.C.

5. Where were early humans from?

7.    
Neandertal      modern Homo sapiens

8. How did those early people survive?
Nomads were hunter-gathers

9. Role of Women vs. Men Gathered fruits, berries, roots and grasses.
Took care of children.
· Hunted

10. Neolithic Revolution Also called Agricultural Revolution
Shift from food-gathering to food-producing.

11. What caused Agricultural Revolution?
1) Change in climate.
2) Supply of grain.
3) Pressure to support growing population.

12. Where Agricultural Revolution took place:

13. Between about 12,000 and 1,000 BCE, farming
Eastern North America
China
Fertile Crescent
Nile valley
West
Africa
Mesoamerica
New Guinea
Ethiopia
Andes
Amazonia
Between about 12,000 and 1,000 BCE, farming
appeared INDEPENDENTLY in a number of places,
possibly in all of the places marked in red on the map.
1,000 years ago
Today
Big Eras 4-9
10,000 years ago
Big Era 3
Big Era 2

14. One of the major changes is reflected in this frieze on a wall in Mesopotamia (today Iraq) :
which reflects the DOMESTICATION of…
animals
and plants

15. What does all this mean? People started farming.
People no longer on the move.
More food led to population growth.
Led to start of civilizations.

16. SURPLUS FOOD PRODUCTION…
…means that not everyone has to grow food or tend animals. They can take on other tasks. They can specialize in some non-farming task.
                                                                 

17. Domestication of Plants and Animals
Farming
Population
Intensification
Surplus Food
Specialization
Complex Society,
also known as
CIVILIZATION